SSD thrashing

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:51:56AM +1000, Phil wrote:
> I have a Lenovo T420 with 4Gb of RAM and a about 790Gb free in the /
> partition of my SSD. I also admit that I have about 30 tabs open under
> Firefox.
> 
> What would be my best course of action to prevent disk thrashing? I was
> thinking about enabling Zswap or should I just do something about the open
> Firefox tabs? Adding extra RAM might be a good idea but I don't know where I
> might buy older style RAM from online.
> 
Try crucial.com, they have a machine database that enables you to look
up memory for your machine, I think they should cover as far back as
T420, it's not *that* old.

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Chris Green